If app/vim or app/gvim are built USE="-perl", startup fails with the following errors: Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/ctx-1.17.vim: line 33: E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: perl << ENDPERL line 34: E749: empty buffer line 35: E488: Trailing characters: # CTX main package line 36: E492: Not an editor command: package CTX; <snip - the rest is all because the original problem> Uninstalling app-vim/ctx or re-emerging [g]vim with USE="perl" are required to allow vim to function again.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=553faa3a6330706cda3971965b7cf6c72e17a84d commit 553faa3a6330706cda3971965b7cf6c72e17a84d Author: Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-01-14 00:27:59 +0000 Commit: Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-01-14 00:28:23 +0000 app-vim/ctx: add vim with built-in Perl support to DEPEND. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/591068 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.13, Repoman-2.3.3 app-vim/ctx/ctx-1.17-r1.ebuild | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)